Just across the harbour from the relatively safe and affluent area I inhabit in Hout Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, is a colored community whose presence inspires both fear and awe amongst my fellow residents. And the general relationship between the two communities is one driven mainly by mutual suspicion. After 5 years in…
South Africa
The Karoo desert lies in the Northern Cape in South Africa and is a semi-desert region made up of flat scrublands and grasslands, interrupted by ridges of dolorite rock and conical hills. In such a vast expanse whose physical geography has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, it would be a…
A child Awareness Campaign at a primary school in Khayelitsha. A Theatre group, sponsored by the NGO the Simelela Centre - a one-stop 24/7 Rape Centre - performs a puppet show in the local Xhosa language to warn of the dangers of friendly approaches by older people – be they a family friend or even relative. …
Nowhere else in the world is the divide between all that is positive and negative with the urban human experience so harshly exposed as it is in the African city space. As cities have continued to expand at an alarming rate that sees no sign of slowing any time soon, governments and local authorities have…
Kim I was sexually abused and raped at a very young age by someone I loved and adored. My whole world fell apart and the only way I knew how to deal with what was happening to me was to push it as far away in my mind as I could. In my early thirty's…